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2001

Find My Body

It was so hot that summer day; I could hardly breath. The cicadas were crying so loudly. The bridge connecting the new building and the main building was supposed to be finished over the summer holidays. I could see that the workers didn't want to do it but they were getting paid more than they required, so they kept working.

Because of the heat that day, the chief let the workers have a nap from their work. During the worker's naps, some of the scaffolding collapsed. The workers were in the middle of their nap, so they didn't take notice. The chief was furious and started to yell at the workers, but they just pretended they were still asleep.

The chief, still yelling, walked over to the fallen scaffolding to put them back up himself. All of a sudden, the yelling was cut off. It was silent. The workers became scared.

The chief and the rest of the workers gathered around the decapitated lunch lady who was struck by the scaffolding. Both jugular veins were cut, so there was tons of blood spread across the ground. The stream of blood from the veins would be pouring out for minutes.

From that point, the workers began working a lot harder. Their brains seemed to have switched on finally. Everything was perfect, but there was one problem. The lunch lady's head was missing.

The chief and the workers didn't want any trouble, so they all agreed to chuck the headless body into the cement. No-one knew about what they did, but them.

The construction of the bridge was delayed after what happened that day. Many of the workers were injured soon after the incident. The last worker was killed in a faulty pulley accident on the 4th floor. His body was minced, but the head was unharmed. The chief killed himself later on because of the constant hauntings around the school.

After the construction was finally completed, the woman's head was found in a flower patch at the start of the term.

2015

12. Find My Body for Me

The weather was so hot that it made it hard to breathe and the cicadas would not stop chirping. The foreman in charge of construction to connect the New Building to the Old found everything irritating.

In his opinion, it was a pointless project but he wasn’t going to complain since it was paid work.

The sun blazed even hotter after lunch and heat waves rose off the asphalt.

The workers protested that it was too hot to work.

The foreman was both jealous and spiteful of the brash attitude of the workers.

However, he agreed it was too hot to work.

The foreman ordered his workers to take a break. No progress was being made anyways and if a worker happened to get heatstroke, it would just make matters worse. Everyone found a spot in the shade and slept soundly.

Then something happened while everyone was deep in sleep.

A loud cracking sound echoed around campus. It sounded like the scaffolding had crashed through the safety net.

Still drowsy from their nap, the workers paid no attention to it, and went back to sleep.

It was a different matter for the foreman. If there was indeed a problem with the safety net, it would be his responsibility. He yelled at his workers to check out the safety net but they pretended like they didn’t hear him.

Deeply annoyed, the foreman realized that he had to check it out himself.

The workers, who were debating whether to get up or not, were glad that the foreman had left without them.

Suddenly, the foreman yelled and then was cut off, leaving an eerie silence. The workers jumped up and rushed to the foreman.

The foreman was frozen in shock, staring at a terrible sight.

Where the scaffolding had fallen through the safety net, was the dead body of a woman.

The woman’s corpse had no head.

The foreman and the workers instantly recognized the dead woman as someone who worked in a local restaurant. From the chopped stump of her neck, dark red blood was spewing out, soaking into the ground.

The foreman and the workers kept their mouths shut and moved quickly. It was the first time they had worked together so harmoniously.

Despite searching everywhere, they could not find the missing head. In the end, they buried the body in cement and sent it to a waste facility. It seemed like they did a perfect job covering up what had happened.

No one would ever know what had happened aside from themselves. For some reason though, strange accidents kept on happening after the incident. Workers were injured much more frequently than before. This slowed progress on construction, and a rumor spread among the workers that there was a ghost at the site.

The foreman fumed with anger and ordered his men to keep their mouths shut.

Then, a pulley fell from the 4th floor and crushed a worker to death. While his body had been mangled by the pulley, his head was strangely unharmed.

The foreman became terrified and decided to turn himself in to the police.

Even then, rumors persisted that a floating head could sometimes be seen. Eventually, the construction work was completed despite the slow progress.

When the school reopened after summer break, they were shocked to find the woman’s head in the garden.

They say that the head looked as if it had just been cut off of the body, despite the fact that it had been out in the heat of the summer for weeks.